Improvement in the construction of piles for railway rails



PATENT OFFICE.'

-THOMAS RICHARDSON, JOHN WILLIAM RICHARDSON, AND ADAM SPENCER, OF

WEST HARTLEPOOL, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PILES FOR RAILWAY RAIL-S,

Speeiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,049, dated September 19, 1871.

To all 'whom lt may concern:

Beit known that we, THOMAS RICHARDSON,

` JOHN WILLIAM RICHARDSON, and ADAM SPEN- CER, all of West Hartlepool, in the county of Durham and Kingdom of" Great Britain, ir'on-Inasters, have invented certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Rails, of which the following is a specification:

Our improvements have for their obj ect the use of economical descriptions of iron from which hanged or other rails may be rolled.

The accompanying drawing will serve more fully to illustrate our invention. The drawing represents a pile77 nine inches by nine and a half inches.

ll is the slab of best puddled or other iron to form the head of the rail, and in the drawing is shown one and three-quarter inch thick. Under this comes ve inches of puddled bar or other iron in bars or layers of three-quarters of an inch thick, as shown at o o. At the bottom there is about two and a half inches of fibrous iron with layers of Ilve-eighths of an inch thick, b b, and with sides or side pieces a a, of one of which a detached view is given. In the drawing these Sides are Shown of an irregular T-shape, made from the rail crops without reheating, or from other iron. The pile thus constructed is intended to be introdueed into the heating-furnace with the slab d, of which the head is formed uppermost, thus securing a thorough welding of the head, so as to prevent lamination, and also protecting the lower part which forms the flange from being overheated, thus preserving the ber and consequently the strength of that portion of the rail.

What we claim is The arrangement of the slab ol, bars e, layers b, of iibrous iron, and side pieces a, when operating together, as and for the purpose described.

THOMAS RICHARDSON. JOHN WILLIAM RICHARDSON. ADAM SPENCER.

Witnesses:

JOHN BISHOP STROVER,

Notary Publio, West Hartlepool. JAMES GHHNwAY DENT,

Hl's Clerk, West Hartlepool. 

